Granitic Rocks

Famous quotes containing the words granitic and/or rocks:

“We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“But square-cut or pear-shape, these rocks don’t lose their shape!”
—Leo Robin (1900–1984)